[MiKTeX] MiKTeX update and Windows firewall

[David Cardon]

I have MiKTeX 2.5 installed on three different computers. A home
computer, and office computer, and a laptop. In all cases the MiKTeX
update wizard fails unless I temporarily disable the Windows firewall.
Does anyone know if there a fix for this?

[Aleks Kleyn]

You do not need to disable windows firewall. This is not good. The better
approach to run update in administrator mode. You can do it by two ways. Or
right click shortcut and select run as administrator or select shortcut
property, go to compatibility tab and select run as administrator. This is
more reliable way. I use miktex 2.5 under vista since august last year and
do not have any problem.

Aleks Kleyn
http://www.geocities.com/aleks_kleyn



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Subject: [MiKTeX] MiKTeX update and Windows firewall

I have MiKTeX 2.5 installed on three different computers. A home
computer, and office computer, and a laptop. In all cases the MiKTeX
update wizard fails unless I temporarily disable the Windows firewall.
Does anyone know if there a fix for this?

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[David Cardon]

I have been running MiKTeX update in administrator mode on Windows XP.
The update program will receive the list of servers, but if I select a
server I receive the message

The operation could not be completed for the following reason:

failure when receiving data from peer

I do not receive the error message if I disable the Windows firewall.
But I would prefer not to disable the firewall every time I try to
update MiKTeX.

Post by Aleks Kleyn
You do not need to disable windows firewall. This is not good. The better
approach to run update in administrator mode. You can do it by two ways. Or
right click shortcut and select run as administrator or select shortcut
property, go to compatibility tab and select run as administrator. This is
more reliable way. I use miktex 2.5 under vista since august last year and
do not have any problem.
Aleks Kleyn
http://www.geocities.com/aleks_kleyn
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Cardon
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:59 PM
Subject: [MiKTeX] MiKTeX update and Windows firewall
I have MiKTeX 2.5 installed on three different computers. A home
computer, and office computer, and a laptop. In all cases the MiKTeX
update wizard fails unless I temporarily disable the Windows firewall.
Does anyone know if there a fix for this?
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[Aleks Kleyn]

I do not think you need administrative mode in win XP because you can login
as administrator. I tell about Vista where you use user account control and
where you need to elevate application permission to solve specific problem.

Aleks Kleyn
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[Corentin Fontaine]

Hi David,

I made a few tests on my computer (WinXP), and everything goes fine... I
cannot reproduce the problem you're mentionning...

Have you tried to connect to another mirror? I personnaly used
ftp://ftp.inria.fr...
Have you tried to look at the Firewall options (start/settings/control
panel/windows firewall) to see if the port you want to use is
accessible/open?

HTH,

Corentin

Post by Aleks Kleyn
I do not think you need administrative mode in win XP because you can login
as administrator. I tell about Vista where you use user account control and
where you need to elevate application permission to solve specific problem.
Aleks Kleyn
http://www.geocities.com/aleks_kleyn
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[Alan Ristow]

Post by David Cardon
I have been running MiKTeX update in administrator mode on Windows XP.
The update program will receive the list of servers, but if I select a
server I receive the message
failure when receiving data from peer
I do not receive the error message if I disable the Windows firewall.
But I would prefer not to disable the firewall every time I try to
update MiKTeX.

Have you tried adding MiKTeX to the list of exceptions in Windows
Firewall? I'm not sure exactly which executable(s) you would need to
add, though I would guess mpm.exe at a minimum.

That said, I have no explicit exceptions for MiKTeX in my firewall and
everything works fine. I'm guessing you have some non-default setting in
your firewall that's causing the problem, but I have no idea what it
might be. It could be worth making sure your WinXP installation is fully
updated....

Alan

[Bi-Info (http://members.home.nl/bi-info)]

Dear users,

I use EMacs with MikTeX, especially AUCTEX. I have a very strange error.
I've reinstalled EMacs with AUCTEX, but the error remains.

PDFLaTeX should run from the menu. So I choose the menu PDFLaTeX,
PDFLaTeX starts... but it chooses a file `.tex, and not my original
file: retyped.tex. I chose another file, and it runs. What's wrong?
EMacs seems to associate my PDFLaTeX file with another file.

Thanks in advance,

Wilfred

[Alan Ristow]

Post by Bi-Info (http://members.home.nl/bi-info)
Dear users,
I use EMacs with MikTeX, especially AUCTEX. I have a very strange error.
I've reinstalled EMacs with AUCTEX, but the error remains.
PDFLaTeX should run from the menu. So I choose the menu PDFLaTeX,
PDFLaTeX starts... but it chooses a file `.tex, and not my original
file: retyped.tex. I chose another file, and it runs. What's wrong?
EMacs seems to associate my PDFLaTeX file with another file.

Look at the end of your retyped.tex file. Do you see a section that
looks something like this?:

%%% Local Variables:
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-master: t
%%% End:

If so, and you have anything but "t" following "TeX-master", I suspect
AUCTeX thinks your file is a sub-file of whatever file is listed next to
TeX-master. Change the name of the master to "t" (without the quotes)
and try again. For more details, see the AUCTeX documentation on
multi-part files.

If that's not it, I suggest you try your query at
gmane.emacs.auctex.general. I'm not sure how many Emacs/AUCTeX experts
there are around here (I'm certainly not one), and this is most
definitely an Emacs issue unrelated to MiKTeX.

Alan

[George N. White III]

Post by Alan Ristow

Post by David Cardon
I have been running MiKTeX update in administrator mode on Windows XP.
The update program will receive the list of servers, but if I select a
server I receive the message
failure when receiving data from peer
I do not receive the error message if I disable the Windows firewall.
But I would prefer not to disable the firewall every time I try to
update MiKTeX.

Have you tried adding MiKTeX to the list of exceptions in Windows
Firewall? I'm not sure exactly which executable(s) you would need to
add, though I would guess mpm.exe at a minimum.
That said, I have no explicit exceptions for MiKTeX in my firewall and
everything works fine. I'm guessing you have some non-default setting in
your firewall that's causing the problem, but I have no idea what it
might be. It could be worth making sure your WinXP installation is fully
updated....

I very much doubt mpm is doing anything special -- it works for me
in Windows XP SP2 with Windows Firewall and also using the linux
version behind a restrictive firewall.

The Windows firewall has a log -- check the configuration for the
exact name and location.

Can you manually (e.g., using a web browser) download a .cab file from
<CTAN-mirror>/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/?

[Ralf Steinle]

Hi,

I'am also have in use miktex2.5 . After installing the paket with admin
rights I never had to start the update in admin mode again. It works
without admin rights in xp.

Bye
Ralf

Post by Aleks Kleyn
You do not need to disable windows firewall. This is not good. The better
approach to run update in administrator mode. You can do it by two ways. Or
right click shortcut and select run as administrator or select shortcut
property, go to compatibility tab and select run as administrator. This is
more reliable way. I use miktex 2.5 under vista since august last year and
do not have any problem.
Aleks Kleyn
http://www.geocities.com/aleks_kleyn

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

Post by Bi-Info (http://members.home.nl/bi-info)
I use EMacs with MikTeX, especially AUCTEX. I have a very
strange error.
I've reinstalled EMacs with AUCTEX, but the error remains.
PDFLaTeX should run from the menu. So I choose the menu PDFLaTeX,
PDFLaTeX starts... but it chooses a file `.tex, and not my original
file: retyped.tex. I chose another file, and it runs. What's wrong?
EMacs seems to associate my PDFLaTeX file with another file.

As always with such questions, one should try to determine where the fault
lies, in this case MiKTeX (I doubt) or Emacs (more likely). To do so, one
simply needs to try running the offending command from the command line
prompt, ie, open a DOS window and try typing exactly what you assume Emacs
should be trying to launch.

Cheers, Phil